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sent by (output started at [ROOT]/includes/functions.php:3887) • View topic - Bed of Nails

I was just reading this one again. In the chase scene where Zinc commandeers a biker and his chopper to chase a couple of suspects, the Oldmobile that the dealer and ho are riding in careens off an embankment and burst into flame.

I may be wrong here but didn't Mythbusters do an episode where they showed it's not possible for a car's gas tank to go up in flames when it's ruptured? I could just be being picky here but I do like Slade's books to be accurate.

I wish the media would report more on public service and charity news instead of gossip. It is of much greater value. - Jackie Chan

That is correct The Mythbusters did indeed prove that a ruptured gas tank will not explode or even catch fire without a very specific set of circumstances being met.

To cause gasoline from a ruptured tank to burn at all you need to have the exact fuel to air ratio and a continuous ignition source directly in the fuel/air mix. So any strong breeze will reduce ignition chances to nearly nothing.

The going off the embankment and bursting into flames is more like a action film chase scene; not according to Hoyle accurate, but using dramatic license to give a fun, titillating climax to an intense scene.

In Pop Cult, there are moments that are Big Bangs. Cornerstones that those who didn't live through the moment can never grasp to full effect, because you need to have known the time BEFORE the Big Bang to truly absorb its impact.

There was no Rock-and-Roll in the Great White North, and then Elvis appeared on the Ed Sullivan show.

Murder was "tastefully" done onscreen until Hitchcock's PSYCHO.

The center label of records like the Rolling Stones' BEGGARS BANQUET had to inform listeners that the disk was designed to be played LOUD.

And young movie-goers went to the drive-in to neck (and, hopefully, get laid), until they were frozen stiff by the cannibals in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Slade

P.S. Interesting trivia: Due to an error in the mastering, BEGGARS BANQUET was heard for over thirty years at a slower speed than it was recorded. This had the effect of altering not only the tempo of each song, but the song's key as well. These differences were subtle but important, and the remastered version is about 30 seconds shorter than the original release.

Every now and then I have to reclaim my honorary title of "Captain Obvious," and I'm afraid this is one of those moments...

I know from reading through them all that there is a lot of information in the Morgue Drawers. But it was just moments ago when the sheer volume of that information in total crashed down on me.

Do you guys realize that there is enough information, both text and visual, to fill at least a full sized book, if not more?

Let's think about that for a moment, since he started this project; Slade has been researching, writing, teaching, attending events, going on publicity junkets, keeping up with this forum, and, in his "spare time" writing tens of thousands of extra words!

So 40k words in five morgue drawers, let's assume that's a good average, that would mean that by the time the Morgue Drawers are complete there will be nearly 120,000 extra words written by Slade for us fans to get all the background information we could ever want... For free!

"The Sladist's Home Companion" as it were.

So, just in case I never said it before: Thank you, Slade, for the all the extra time and energy you've put into this project.

Once again cracking read, with only four more books to go I am thinking two things, will I ever read a Slade book that I don't like (doubtful) or what will I do with myself once all are read (shudders).

Anyway on with the inevitable questions...

I think I asked this way back when I joined, we'll see Congo man again ?

The Ripper, will he still plague Zinc, do they ever meet face to face, will the Ripper do what most authors do with their characters and break out and go after Zinc ?